Unreleased material from Soundgarden coming later this year

The first bit of new music from Soundgarden will be released
later this year in the form of a playable song on the video game
Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock.

The unreleased song “Black Rain” is a part of the tracklist for
the game, which will be released Sept. 21, 2010. The song will be
the first bit of new music from the newly reunited band in more
than a decade. Since reuniting not much has been going on in the
Soundgarden camp this year aside from playing a one-off reunion
show at the Showbox (read Ear Candy’s review
here) and prepping for its upcoming Lollapalooza
headlining set. A heavily rumored box
set that is expected to include rarities, b-sides and
more unreleased goodies has yet to be dated for release. Perhaps
“Black Rain” surfacing is a good sign the box set will see the
light of day some time this year.

A reunited band releasing highly anticipated new music via video
game isn’t a new marketing tactic. A few years back Rock Band 2
featured “Shackler’s Revenge,” a then unreleased song by Guns N
Roses, when Axl Rose was attempting to make a comeback with
Chinese Democracy. Of course, Soundgarden is a bit of a
different beast than GNR.